![]() ![]() The most successful of these is Svengali, whose supernatural powers enable him to dominate and ultimately destroy her. ![]() It is the story of Trilby O’Farrell, a young, promiscuous free-spirit in 1850s bohemian Paris and the men who want to control her. Issued as a book in the US on 8 September 1894, it sold 100,000 copies in a month within five months, 200,000. First serialised in Harper’s Magazine beginning in January 1894, it added 100,000 to the magazine’s circulation before its second instalment. Svengali is one of those rare literary creations that becomes shorthand for a kind of behaviour: in this case, mesmeric control over another.He originated in George du Maurier’s novel Trilby. Whenever Dominic Cummings makes the headlines, commentators reach for the same word to describe his relationship with the prime minister: he is Boris Johnson’s Svengali. ![]()
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